September 11th : The Day the World Got Scarier

12 years ago today I was on days off from work and was at home alone. I slept late, walked down to the shop and bought some stuff for brunch, came back to my skanky flat, cooked up a full Scottish breakfast, turned on News24 and watched in confusion as the whole world changed right in front of me. I spent the rest of my week off watching the Twin Towers collapse over and over again in slow motion from various angles, saw the planes hit again and again and again and listened to confused commentators and witnesses speculate and try and make sense of it all. When it was time for me to return for my first shift back in the high glass tower I called work, I walked towards it afraid to look at the sky in case a plane flew into it too as this was the only image I had seen for the last few days. No-one expected the Towers to fall down so who knew what might be next. Probably not a hotel in Glasgow and I knew that but I couldn't get the image out of my head. Still can't 12 years later.

Now I work for a company who have been involved in rebuilding the World Trade Center site and my part in it is miniscule but at least it's something and I can take a small amount of pride in that. So for today I shall be thinking about the 3,000 people who died that day and the many heroes who defied logic and ran towards the buildings when everyone else was running away.

If it interests you at all to see what work has been done on the site since then there is a link below with some interesting documentary stuff at the bottom.

One World Trade Center